STATISTICAL MECHANICS An Advanced Course with Problems and Solutions RYOGO KUBO Tokyo HIROSHI ICHIMURA —TSUNEMARU USUI NATSUKI HASHITSUME Tokyo Institute of Technology Kyoto University Ochanomicu University e CY eo S fevoREGIS TERED ON VERSION ADDS NO WA TERMARK &, & NORTH-HOLLAND, AMSTERDAM - OXFORD - NEW YOM : re >© isvier Sience Publishers BLV, 1965, All rights reserved. No par of this publication may be reproduced. stored ina retrieval system, oF transmitted, in any form or by any means, clecttonic, mechanical, photocopying, recocing oF ‘otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, Ese Holland Physics Publishing Disision), RO. ox 105, 1000 AC Amsterdam sin the USAT publication has been registered with the Copyright Information can be obtained from the CCC ‘Special regulations fr rea ‘Clearance Center tne. (CCC), my, Massachusetts et Sience Publishers BLY. (North he Netherlands bout conditions under which photocopies of pats of this publication may be made in the USA. Al other copsright questions, including photocopying outside of the USA, should be referred to the publisher. ISBN: 0 444 87103 9 Paperback First edition (hardbound) 1965 Second edition (hardbound) 1967 Third edition (hardbound) 1971 Fourth edition (hardbound) 1978 Fifth edition (hardbound) 1978 Sith edition (hardbound) 1981 Seventh edition (paperback) 1988 Published by Nont-tolland Physics Publishing a division of Elsevier Science Publishers LV. PO, Box 108 1000 AC Amsterdam The Netherlands Sole distributors fr the USA and Canada: Eleever Science Publishing Company, Ine 52 Vanderbilt Avenue New York, NY 10017 USA ‘North-Holland Personal Library: paperback’ Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 67-20003, Printed in The Netherlands 45 y REGISTERED ©) VERSION ADDS NO WA TERMARK &, Op, <5 Tint-drwePREFACE TO ENGLISH EDITION The original text ofthis volume is part of the book “Problems and Solutions in Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics", itself one of the “University Series” published by the Shokabo Publishing Company. At the request of the present publisher, the English edition is being published in two volumes, cone on thermodynamics and the other on statistical mechanics. Considering the more urgent interest of university students in statistical mechanics, this Volume has been translated and published first. The volume on thermo- dynamics is expected to be published within a year. ‘The translation was made from the Japanese text by the original authors, together with a few collaborators. AS the editor of the original Japanese edition and of the English edition, I wish to express my deep appreciation to Drs. Masaji Kubo, Toshihiko Tsuneto and Satoru Miyake who did the trans- lation work with the authors, and particularly to Professor Donald C. Worth of International Christian University, Tokyo, who kindly took the trouble of helping us with linguistic difficulties. ‘The authors are also indebted to Miss N. Tokuda for the preparation of the manuscript. 1964 Ryoao Kuso VERSION ADDS NO WA TERMARK &, < eint-driNg